Daily VIIRS True-Color images from NOAA-20 for the Great Lakes in November 2020
Daily true-color images from NOAA-20 VIIRS over Lake Erie, 1-30 November 2020 (Click to animate)
CIMSS provides sectorized VIIRS true-color imagery for each of the five Great Lakes, and for the entire Great Lakes basin at the Direct Broadcast ftp site (ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/eosdb/j01/viirs/ and ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/eosdb/npp/viirs for NOAA-20 and Suomi-NPP, respectively). The imagery above shows NOAA-20 images saved from that site and merged together to make an animation (except for 12, 13, 14 November. Mea Culpa) over Lake Erie. Click here to view the animation as an mp4. (Additional animations for the other Great Lakes have also been created: Lake Ontario in animated gif / mp4) Lake Huron in animated gif / mp4 ; Lake Michigan in animated gif / mp4; Lake Superior in animated gif ; mp4)
The daily views allow a user to view slow changes in the Lake’s circulation — when skies are clear. Such was the case on 8, 9 and 10 November, shown below. A slow anticyclonic motion in the widest part of central Lake Erie is apparent.
NOAA-20 VIIRS true-color imagery over Lake Erie on 8, 9, and 10 November 2020 (Click to enlarge)